Cultural Features Reflected in Polish and Vietnamese Proverbs

by Thi Thu Thuy Nguyen^1
1 Ho Chi Minh City University of Culture (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29202/fhi/13/8
Received: March 10, 2020 / Accepted: March 29, 2020 / Published: April 25, 2020

Proverbs as a section of language are a folklore genre that contains much knowledge, wisdom, philosophy, behavior of nations. Research on proverbs themselves is always an interesting job attracting many scholars. More particularly, research on proverbs as tools by language-culture relationship perspective to deeply understand cultures is a much harder task. Using an interdisciplinary approach and typological method in Comparative cultural studies based on the data of more than 151 proverbs processed, the findings of this article will introduce some cultural features of Polish and Vietnamese people as well as East and West. It is just a channel to prove that research on proverbs can help research on culture to affirm the differences and similarities in thought and behavior. Accordingly, this will help the communication and cultural interchange, cooperation, and education better and more effectively.

Keywords:proverbs, sayings, Polish culture, Vietnamese culture, comparative cultural studies

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Nguyen, Thi Thu Thuy (2020) Cultural Features Reflected in Polish and Vietnamese Proverbs. Future Human Image, Volume 13, 76-87. https://doi.org/10.29202/fhi/13/8